Conductor: Tsung Yeh
Shakuhachi: Yamamoto Hozan, Yamamoto Shinzan
Taiko: Eitetsu Hayashi
Treasures of Japan features three Japanese masters on the shakuhachi and taiko. This album, rich in Japanese flavour and zen, includes Japanese composer Isao Matsushita’s Hi-Ten-Yu and Dance of Firmament, with famous Chinese composer Zhao Ji Ping’s magnificent piece Monk Jianzhen Sailing Eastward. This concert was staged by the SCO on 17 April 2009.